Word: crescendos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literary lions of the U.S. A native of Mississippi, he came to Chicago as a young man and for a time lit up the literary sky as the editorial partner of Ben Hecht. In the '20s, when he settled down in Greenwich Village, Max hit his bohemian crescendo. A lusty, limpidly handsome man. he attracted women by the scores (at least two of his castoff in amoratas committed suicide). By 1935, though, Bodenheim was no longer in vogue. Sales of his murky verse (Minna and Myself) and erotic novels (Replenishing Jessica) dwindled away, and he sank gradually into...
...stage, an amazingly lean and youthful figure in tight pants and short jacket, his arms raised in the gypsy dancer's graceful but virile pose. For seven minutes, accompanied only by the rhythmic snapping of his fingernails, he stamped and whirled through the old dances, ending with the crescendo stamping of the flamenco Zapateado. At the finish. Escudero stood motionless, his face whitened and pinched by the effort, as spectators jumped to their feet, applauding wildly. From the gallery, a voice hoarse with emotion shouted: "Vicente, esto es!" (Vicente, that...
Tampering hardly at all with the pace of the play, the film moves slowly with a growing sense of impending tragedy toward the crescendo of Caesar's murder. From there, the film hurtles through the intense drama of the funeral oration, the quarrel in Brutus' camp, and the suicides of the "honorable men." Even the early scenes, however, are far from static because of the brilliance of James Mason's performance as Brutus and John Gielgud's as Cassius. Mason's portrayal of the incomparably noble man, whose decisions invariably prove fatal, has a grandeur which over-shadows the other...
...imperial cities, grandiose palaces and panoramic landscapes that are neither distorted nor require the use of polarized glasses. In CinemaScope closeups, the actors are so big that an average adult could stand erect in Victor Mature's ear, and its four-directional sound track often rises to a crescendo loud enough to make moviegoers feel as though they were locked in a bell tower during the Angelus. Obviously, Hollywood has finally found something louder, more colorful and breathtakingly bigger than anything likely to be seen on a home TV screen for years to come...
Before the week was out, the buzz-buzz in Ohio was amplified to a crescendo by another tidbit: Governor Lausche flew from Washington to Seattle in the presidential plane with Dwight Eisenhower. Surely, the pundits reasoned, the President and the governor talked about what everyone else in Ohio was talking about. Suppose they came to an agreement...